The Saint John Free Public library has an extensive microfilm collection as well as local history and family scrapbooks

 

Topics in our collection include:

• Alms House Records (Saint John)
• Births
• Burial Permits (1889-1919)
• Census (NB) 1851-1901
• Churches: Typescripts
• Custom House Port Returns
• Death Registers and Certificates
• Douglas Avenue Christian Church Fonds
• Fitzpatrick's Funeral Home Records
• Freeman Certificates
• Graeme Somerville Collection
• Land Petitions: 1783-1857
• Marriage Records
• Newspapers from across the province
• Parish Registers
• Passenger Manifests for Ships, 1900-1908
• Poll Books
• Probate Records
• Saint John City Directories: 1857, 1963-1982
• Saint John Register of Voters
• Shipping Records (Port of Saint John) 1878-1949
• Teachers' Petitions and LIcenses
• Teachers' School Returns
• Telephone Directories
• Vestry Minutes-Trinity Anglican Church

 

Seven microfilm readers, two reader/printers and a microfiche reader/printer are available for use.

 

Printing is .50 cents per page.

 

A microfilm scanner is available.  Scanning microfilm is provided free of charge.